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But that's because you ARE Mabel.
I really don't understand how anyone can even think to call you anything else!

EXACTLY

Mabel Figworthy wrote:Very well, Fljots it is then. It sounds rather Scandinavian to me, but that may just be because it reminds me of fjords . Does it have a significance or did you just like the sound?

And I know what you mean about answering to it in real life -- I'm getting worryingly used to being Mabel!

When I first went on-line I tried all sorts of fancy names that appealed to me, but they were all too popular and had to have a number after them. I wanted something more exclusive. I had studied Old Icelandic at University as a minor subject, and so had quite a few of the Sagas in my bookshelf in the bedroom beside the computer. The Fljotsdale Saga caught my eye. So you are right about it's origins.

Your progress is lovely I can see the dragon section now as well.

I know what you mean about names I am quite touchy about mine. In the live world (won't call it real as this is real too) I don't let people shorten my name I never have. On this forum though it just seemed so naturel to shorten it to the name my family use for me. Don't worry you will forever be flojts to us now!

Between your TW project and the other one in the SAL, I'm starting to be tempted......

As for being called by your screen name, I don't worry about that. Of course, I'll answer to Barb or Barbra in life, but if my mom and grandma are around, I'll even answer to Debbie--my mom's sister's name is Debbie, and my grandma will call me that all the time.

i use cindyboohbear on all of the net stuff... my youngest couldnt call me mom for life nor money so he called me booh my ex called me bear so boohbear stuck with me for 19 yrs my usband wanted to be able to share on the net and so we use teamsnafu not a nice meaning but he didnt want me to use 2 user names on here....... hope all goes well on the 17th my prayers are with you...

Cindy

Great progress! I love those wonderful 'wintery' colours!

I'm happy to be WendyWombat here, even WW BUT call me anything but Wendy in real life and the sharp side of my tongue comes into play!!
I can't bear Wend or Woo or any shortened versions of a name that can't be shortened!


Just me, I guess!

wendywombat wrote:Great progress! I love those wonderful 'wintery' colours!

I'm happy to be WendyWombat here, even WW BUT call me anything but Wendy in real life and the sharp side of my tongue comes into play!!
I can't bear Wend or Woo or any shortened versions of a name that can't be shortened!


Just me, I guess!

I hear you! My real name is Melissa and my in laws call me Mel. I hate it!

Fabulous stitching, Fljots. It's coming along so well.

Since we're talking about names here, how do you pronounce Fljotsdale? I know I'm hardly ever likely to need to say it out loud but I'm curious.

Slinky

PS Slinky is a nickname given to me by a friend. Only she calls me it, but I quite like it. And apologies to Wendy, Nettie, Spark et al for people just like me. I shorten names all the time and give friends nicknames.

Spark wrote:

wendywombat wrote:Great progress! I love those wonderful 'wintery' colours!

I'm happy to be WendyWombat here, even WW BUT call me anything but Wendy in real life and the sharp side of my tongue comes into play!!
I can't bear Wend or Woo or any shortened versions of a name that can't be shortened!


Just me, I guess!

I hear you! My real name is Melissa and my in laws call me Mel. I hate it!

i hate being called lis or is it lise. and people calling maggie mags just get me sooo , no offence to our mags

Fortunately neither my name here nor my "real" name are easy to shorten (although if you really wanted to you could try "Mabe", I suppose) -- although I find that some people in England look at the spelling (Ilke) and pronounce it "Ilkee", or they hear what it sounds like and spell it "Ilka". Oh, and one friend insists on addressing me as "Ilke of that ilk", but then he's a bit of an eccentric

mine usually gets shortened to H god forbid anyone other than family that try to call me helly(only my grandad called me that) i hate being called hells bells

I think it's easiest to think of people on here as their user names, especially with the avatar pictures as that helps it stick in your mind more! I don't mind being called Burgundyice at all, only regret that it's not that easy to type! But my real name is Louise.... I don't like it being shortened much, only friends may be allowed to call me Lou... plus the amount of people when asking me for something saying "please Louise" & laughing because it rhymes... at 26 do they really think I've never heard that before??!!



Louise

Although my full name is Jill, I have one friend that insists on calling me Jillian good job I really like her
I find people spell it Gill, I am not a fish
I do like being called Jilly, thats what Dave calls me, for some reason My parents have always called me Lizzie
I do answer to anything within reason, apart from, Oi! , you there! or hey!

thats funny jilly cos my auntys is spelt gill when she went to visit friends the would call her gillian as in the fish sort.

Mabel Figworthy wrote:Fortunately neither my name here nor my "real" name are easy to shorten (although if you really wanted to you could try "Mabe", I suppose) -- although I find that some people in England look at the spelling (Ilke) and pronounce it "Ilkee", or they hear what it sounds like and spell it "Ilka". Oh, and one friend insists on addressing me as "Ilke of that ilk", but then he's a bit of an eccentric

i think of it as Ike, as in kyles brother in South Park

It's obviously best if I just stick with Mabel here

I like Ilke.

My dad used to get called John. His name was Frederick. But his surname was Jakeman, so first he became Jake, then Jack, then John. He did TELL people his name, but it made no difference!
Mind you, his mother and his brother wouldn't use their first given names, ever: my gran hated her first two names and insisted on being called Elsie (her third name), and my uncle was William Eric, but refused to answer to anything but Eric.

Dragon's looking really good

Is it OK if I just ignore the J (mainly because I can't figure out how to pronounce it) and call you Flots?

(My real name is Carolyn, I don't like it, I'm only called that at work. Otherwise I'm Caz, or KK because I have the Kute Kitty name in a few places. My mother used to sometimes call me Jane, which was her sister's name. One Christmas my brother's girlfriend, Cath, also came home, and names became entirely interchangeable.)

Well Flots is ALMOST the way it's pronounced anyway! But I like that j in there.

The proper Icelandic pronunciation of Fljotsdale is roughly Flee-ods-dalur - and the Icelandic spelling is Fljotsdalr -(not quite because the t is really a ð. I think. It's been a long time since I did Old Icelandic!) but most people mentally say it as Flotsdale. Apart from Nordic people, that is!

glad I have an easy name..although all my boyfriend's family and his friends think my name is terri for some reason. Oh well!